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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 1999
Filed:
May. 24, 1996
Horst-Dieter Fischer, Unterhaching, DE;
Petra Wullstein, Neubiberg, DE;
Jochim Chemnitz, Munchen, DE;
Daimler-Benz Aerospace AG, Ottobrunn, DE;
Abstract
A triaxially stabilized earth oriented satellite is provided with an attitude control system. The attitude control system contains a controller, final control elements for generating control torques around each of three axes of a system of coordinates (principle axes x, y, z) fixed relative to the satellite. Additionally, the attitude control system comprises, as measuring transducers, exclusively a direction vector measurement device, like a magnetometer or star sensor, a sun sensor array and an earth sensor. The process of the invention makes use of the apparatus as noted above and includes the steps of:
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